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Thursday, Jul 25 2019, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. This Frightened Rabbit cover is found on Tiny Changes,the new 10th anniversary covers record honoring the Scottish band's album The Midnight Organ Fight. Daughter stated about taking on this song: “It was an honour to be given the opportunity to cover such a personal, devastating song. Although we felt we could never really do it justice, we enjoyed every moment of the challenge.”
Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner covering Tears For Fears 1985 classic. She'll be at Thing Festival in Port Townsend on August 24th, find full lineup and passes here: thingnw.org
New Order cover that can be found on the Portland band's 2016 full-length release Cherry
Cover off of the 2014 Duran Duran tribute album Making Patterns Rhyme: A Tribute to Duran Duran that also features Moby, Austra, Little Dragon and more
The local legends will be closing out their U.S. tour for The Center Won't Hold at the the Paramount Theatre (minus the incomparable Janet Weiss) for two nights on November 23rd and 24th. Find more info here: www.sleater-kinney.com
This Glasgow trio was at the KEXP studios in 2016, watch the full performance here: www.youtube.com
Fever Ray is the solo project of The Knife's Karin Dreijer. You can find this version of "I'm Not Done" on her 2009 self-titled debut album
A brand new version of "I'm Not Done" that Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer describes as “a track from the first album in new costume.”
Found on the 14-track debut album from Sault, a band we still don't really know anything about! soundcloud.com
The latest from Puerto Rican artist iLe (Ileana Cabra). She told Billboard about this post-Hurricane Maria album, "We don’t confront things until we are faced with the gravity of the situation. And I think this album comes out of the concerns that I have, and that awakening and that capacity that is within us to achieve true change in society, things aren’t going to change by themselves. We have to communicate and find ways to understand each other better."
Happy 43rd birthday to Santigold (Santi White), born on this day in 1976!
Brittany Howard to Rolling Stone about putting the Alabama Shakes on hold while she recorded this new solo album: "We’re a family. Those are my bro-bros for life. But right now they’re just letting me do my thing. If I did the same songs and the same everything, I’d be so miserable. I’d be so bored."
And am I weird to dance alone late at night? | And is it true we're all insane? | And I just tell 'em, no we ain't and get down | www.youtube.com
You know it done by Sheila E, but here's Prince doing this song he wrote in the early 80's
This London artist will return to Seattle at the Showbox on September 29th, find your tickets here: www.showboxpresents.com
Contains a sample of The Isley Brother’s 1971 song “Ohio Machine Gun." Stic.Man of Dead Prez stated about this single: “Soon as I heard how J had reimagined and freaked that classic Isley Brother’s ‘Ohio’ sample it just invoked that soldier spirit in me, I felt the calisthenic cadence of the drums and I wrote my verse inspired by the urgency of what it means to be on the frontlines for what you believe living and fighting with purpose. It’s a battle song for all the long overdue uprisings going on in today’s world.”
From Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs, and found on his new album Bandana
Happy 30th birthday to the Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique, released on this day in 1989! (Remember that time in 2015 that we spent all day breaking this album down...) to.pbs.org
A new album from DJ Shadow is coming (release date forthcoming), and this single from it arrived yesterday! He said about this track: "It’s been awhile since my last album The Mountain Will Fall, and the corresponding tour…and since the tour ended, I’ve been mostly silent. This is because I’ve been focused and working on a ton of music. I usually try to avoid hyperbole, and I’m not super-comfortable hyping up my own stuff, but things are about to get pretty exciting. My heroes De La Soul were kind enough to join me on the debut single, “Rocket Fuel,” and the collab encapsulates so much of what I love about hip-hop…energy, beats, and fun."
The first #1 single for David Bowie in the U.S. was released on this day in 1975! (Hint: it's this one)
David Bowie cover! Catch David J of Bauhaus for a DJ set at Screwdriver bar on August 6th: bit.ly
Found on the sixth LP from B.R.M.C, released in 2013. The Morning Show's day begins at 5:00 AM, which is really not when a day should begin...
Good morning! We've got business! It's playing this Breeders song! Meow meow meow meow meow
New Pixies album is coming out on September 13th! Find your Beneath the Eyrie pre-order here: pixies.tmstor.es
Check out our recap of when Belle and Sebastian played at the Paramount Theatre in 2015 here: bit.ly
Happy 13th birthday to The Long Winters third album, Putting the Day to Bed, released on this day by the Seattle band in 2006!
Off the forthcoming new album from The Hold Steady, due out on August 16th! They're playing three nights at the Crocodile (August 15th, 16th, and 17th), find ticket info here: www.thecrocodile.com
Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing stopped by KEXP in 2016, watch it here: www.youtube.com
Opening track off the debut release from G. Love & Special Sauce
Ty Segall has stated about this single from his new album First Taste: “‘Radio’ is a science non-fiction song. We live in a Cronenberg film. It has Videodrome saxoheadphones. I am a slave to the new radio and so are you.”
Somebody's Knocking, the new album from Mark Lanegan is set to release on October 18th! Keep up with him here: marklanegan.com
Summer Cannibals will be LIVE right here at KEXP this Friday, July 26th at noon! Tune in or come down and watch it in action from our viewing gallery, find out how here: www.kexp.org
The first U.S. band signed by legendary label 4AD, fronted by stepsisters Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly
Happy 61st birthday to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, born on this day in 1958! Here he is at KEXP in 2014: www.youtube.com
Goon is an L.A.-based four piece that just released this album Heaven is Humming and you can find it here: gooon.bandcamp.com
Off the (just released) third album from this Sacramento-based shoegaze band. Find their work here: fleetingjoys1.bandcamp.com
The third album from NYC's DIIV is set to release on October 4th! In a statement about this single, vocalist Zachary Cole Smith said: "It’s an imaginary dialogue between two characters, which could either be myself or people I know. I spent six months in several different rehab facilities at the beginning of 2017. I was living with other addicts. Being a recovering addict myself, there are a lot of questions like, “Who are we? What is this disease?” Our last record was about recovery in general, but I truthfully didn’t buy in. I decided to live in my disease instead. “Skin Game” looks at where the pain comes from. I’m looking at the personal, physical, emotional, and broader political experiences feeding into the cycle of addiction for millions of us."
Ride is back with a new album on August 16th, and they'll be at the Crocodile on October 8th! Find show info here: www.thecrocodile.com
British band Temples will be releasing their third album on September 27th - “It’s not a ten track, relentless rock record from start to finish, it’s got a lot of light and shade and more tender moments, but that heavier, darker sound is something we wanted to explore further.” Find pre-order info here: bit.ly
Happy 13th birthday to Silversun Pickups Carnavas album, released on this day in 2006!
Out now, it's the debut album from this UK trio that formed out of a shared love of Slowdive, Spacemen 3 and Verve | bit.ly
The very first single released from The Smashing Pumpkins!
About the day in question, Ice Cube has said, "It’s a fictional song. It’s basically my interpretation of what a great day would be. Do you know what I’m saying? So, you know, it’s a little of this and a little of that. I don’t think you can pinpoint the day.”
Written by Matt Johnson when he was in his early 20's and newly in a relationship with designer Fiona Skinner, who created the typeface for The The's Soul Mining album
Three-time winner for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 2001 Grammy Awards
Issac Brock to A.V. Club about the more upbeat nature of this song compared to other Modest Mouse tunes: "It was a completely conscious thing. I was just kind of fed up with how bad s**t had been going, and how dark everything was, with bad news coming from everywhere... Then you've got the well-intentioned scientists telling us that everything is f**ked. I just want to feel good for a day."
"Life is still good. You are still here. Love exists. Take care of yourself and experience all this. Live who you are. There is no one else that can be you" - bit.ly
